This man looks like he comes from a loveless marriage of a women that smelled of failed trailer park dreams and heroin and screech from "Saved By The Bell", and has children who never appreciated him as a father(unlike mommy's poolboy), and kills his favorite pet just so he could possibly get the message one day that everyone hates him.

Sorry, went a little off there.

But seriously, he's a big wig idiot, who deserves to be beaten with a bandsaw for all of his idiot ideas.

bjj hero:There are a lot of complaints here about how evil he is but this guy is the american dream. Free market Capitalism working well.

The American kids on this forum should want to be this guy.

Yeah if we were all a bunch of morally corrupt stereotypes we'd want to be this guy. I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than "make a shit-ton of cash and having no conscience"

Capitalism itself isn't so bad but it's people like Kotick that make it pretty crappy for the "lesser" people. I'm glad he's only in control of a video game company and not something that could really upset the balance of the world or some other weird paranoid conspiracy crap like that.

I'm not surprised, but I don't hate him for it, either. He's a businessman, running a business. His companies have only gotten where they are by stepping on a few fingers, including fingers that were holding on to the cliff face. He's ruthless. No businessman of his caliber would be anything but.

Do not buy Modern Warfare 2. Borrow it, rent it, pirate it, anything to make sure he does not get your money. Spread this message to everyone you know. Robert Kotick needs to learn that he can't treat his consumer base like this.

I don't know if I want to buy another Activision game if this guy is in charge of the company. He appears to be the true gaming Anti-Christ. Eventually, his greed will lead to the mosr restrictive DRM ever devised so he can attempt to wring the hard-earned cash out of us!

The only reason I bought GH5 was to get the free Guitar Hero Van Halen before the retail release. In the meantime, we're playing considerably more Beatles: Rock Band than GH5, likely because it's more "fun"...

how can Kotick even manage to convince any of his employees that Activition could go bankrupt? he is CEO of the single largest gaming company on earth, making nearly twice the money NCsoft (largest MMO company on earth, makes more money then WoW) does in a month (NCsoft makes about as much as WoW, and Activition does also).

Say what you like about Kotick embodying raw undiluted evil in corporate form, these public statements of his are frighteningly funny in a "why the hell would anyone go on the record saying that?!" sort of way. It used to be Activision was just another publisher, now they're my number one source of morbid comedy!

"and how technology has not yet reached the point where gamers can develop real emotional attachments to on-screen characters."

Interesting statement. I don't know if he was referring to guitar hero or all games in general. As far as PC games go, and even some console games, I have certainly developed emotional attachments for characters.

As for his Evil reign, Companies are there to make money. So what he is doing is understandable. But taking all the fun out of your job is not a wise decision.

Kotick was always an asshole, and even if you didn't know that personally, you could assume it. He's in marketing, so it's kind of obvious. It seems like most publishers use this methodology, but only Kotick has the balls to say it out loud.

I said this in another thread and they said I was nuts:Game companies need to be run by artists. The business people need to be employees, advisors, NOT CEOs.

Now Activision proves me right again, that unfettered capitalism is a bane. Kotick is an idiot but rich one because too many of you keep buying the games.Ahh, the joys of piracy. I never need worry about funding this shithead as I'll simply ignore his products until I decide to steal from him.

I remember a time when another big name video game company got taken over by corporate minded folk, more interested in making the company into a printing press and getting the games out the door as fast as possible then letting programmers and such have creative freedoms. The games ended up being so banal that it caused the video game market crash of the '80s, and the company was sold off piecemail. Today, the only remnants of the company is another company who wears its name around itself like a dead skin.

Game company big wigs best pay attention to the lesson that is Atari, less they fall to the same fate...kinda like the Atari of today is now.

bjj hero:There are a lot of complaints here about how evil he is but this guy is the american dream. Free market Capitalism working well.

The American kids on this forum should want to be this guy.

Yeah if we were all a bunch of morally corrupt stereotypes we'd want to be this guy. I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than "make a shit-ton of cash and having no conscience"

Capitalism itself isn't so bad but it's people like Kotick that make it pretty crappy for the "lesser" people. I'm glad he's only in control of a video game company and not something that could really upset the balance of the world or some other weird paranoid conspiracy crap like that.

Actually TRUE free market capitalism would be people refusing to buy his company's games. Which would, in turn, cause Activision to suffer heavy losses (which they would futilely blame on file sharing), and later, hopefully, result in the bankruptcy of his company.

Of course, this is all hinging on the fact that Big Government hopefully won't hand him a couple billion and a blow job...